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Several years ago, Walmart opened near Triangle Town Center.,
In great brilliance, DOT put in a spur road just before the road to Walmart. The phony road goes about 1,500 feet and ends in a drop into a gully. It was set up for future use but this has not happened.
The folks put a right turn arrow in front of the road to nowhere, a stub of phony sidewalk, and a stop sign. No street lights to save the unfortunate who turns in there.
Luckily, though many have turned in, nobody I know of has wound up in the gulch.
I called DOT, the property owner, and TV stations. DOT did put up temporary barricades before the gulch which blew over in storms and are gone.
What a bunch of fools.
Last edited by RedZin; 06-29-2015 at 07:46 AM..
Reason: Title change to something more specific.
In my experience DOT does tend to listen. The problem they have is sometimes the problem all of us have. Logistics, permissions, cost, and priority. This may not even be a DOT (state) road. It might be something the developer should have planned for, or the county, or the city. If it is really important to you, then find out was is preventing a solution to the problem, then lend your support to getting it done. I sincerely doubt that DOT are fools.
But if you look at the Google street view, it certainly looks like DOT has had this cordoned off appropriately at one point in time (July 2014, according to Google) : https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8738...7i13312!8i6656
And here's a (April 2015) view from the overpass ... https://www.google.com/maps/@35.8737...7i13312!8i6656 Not sure why anyone would turn down that way with the barriers and navigation systems and such, and even if they did, it looks like there's a guardrail at the end of the road as well.
I don't know, this stuff happens all the time - and this is actually typically good future planning by DOTs. Seems like there's no end to the stuff Saturnfan can find to complain about.
I'm not seeing the problem. DOT has done this every time they expanded 540 near TTC. Why is this any more dangerous?
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